Modern hard disk drives use a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA interface to attach to a computer motherboard. SATA drives come in speeds of 1.5 gigabits per second, 3.0 Gbps and 6.0 Gbps.

Adding more hard drives directly to your computer's internal SATA connections adds storage and optimizes the speed with which your computer can read and write to the new drive. This added space and ...

Make sure you plug into a SATA 6Gbps/SATA 3.0 port if you’re installing a solid state drive. Otherwise, performance may be constrained. Once you’re all set up, close your computer and start it up. You ...

I may be reinstalling XP on one of my machines soon, due to imminent drive failure. I may pick up a replacement drive, if I do, I think I'll get a SATA disk. I've never worked with SATA disks, so I ...

Unfortunately, outside of using expansion cards, there's not a lot you can do if you wish to add a few more SATA drives to the storage mix. If you're like me and don't wish to outright replace the ...

I recently bought two new 74gb WD Raptor SATA boot drives (one was purchased for another comp) to go with my new A64 3000+ CPU and an AOpen AK89 Max mobo. I decided to pay the extra $5 or so from ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

Solid-state drives (SSDs) come with all kinds of perks over your standard hard drive, not the least of which involves serious speed boosts for your computing. Here's how I installed an SSD in my ...

To make your computer run stable and fast, we recommend installing Windows 11 on an SSD drive. Here we give you a step by step guide on how to install Windows 11 on SATA/M.2/NVMe SSD. Now the latest ...

The PlayStation 4 Pro is fast, but let’s see if we can make it faster. One of the many improvements the PS4 Pro has over the original 2013 console is the capability to support the high-bandwidth SATA ...